11-27-2006, 09:12 PM
GonzoStyle Wrote:You can't understand what its like to be a junkie, cause you aren't, just as I cant but I can understand what its like to be addicted to food.
And everyone has an addiction to something but to you of course it doesnt seem like an addiction. Something, whether its money, food, drugs, sex, work, alcohol, etc.
Saying everyone is addicted to something is a cliche. It's a bullshit plattitude told to people who are addicted to something in order to make them feel better and less like a misfit. "No, you're normal, really. You're addicted to food. Every else is addicted to something. You just need to find another addiction!"
Rather than saying, "hey you eat too much - eat less. Hey, why not spend 30 minutes a day at a gym instead of watching TV, or better yet, eating"
Same as "don't drink more than 6 drinks within a 12 hour span, and you won't ruin your life by being a drunk"
JUST STOP IT!
It's easy for me to say because I'm not addicted. But I'm not addicted because I have the willpower and control to a) prevent me from doing something so much so as to have an addiction to it and b) realize that I'm eating too much or drinking too much or spending too much time doing whatever to the point that it's affecting me negatively to curb my habits before they become a problem.
That lack of control, or even caring about control is at the core of "addiction", which is not a chemical thing; it's a personality flaw. The fact that it's treatable just by self-realization proves that it's not an "addiction", which is chemical.
An "emotional" or "mental" addiction is just a PC buzzword for being weakwilled and apthetic.